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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doing war crimes to own the Russians ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's okay when we do it ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

United States and Russia never signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions probably for exactly this reason. There are plenty of war crimes United States commited over the years there is no need to accuse them of something they didn't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does that work? Is it only a war crime when committed by/against a country that signed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's only a war crime under international law if used against civilians. But it would of been an international crime by all use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions if they were part of the convention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's usually how international law works. It only becomes mandatory when there's a critical mass of countries that agree. Yay, "society of states in anarchy". /s